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Baseball great Willie Mays never wanted to be an activist, but the racism he encountered after moving to San Francisco helped motivate the city and state governments to outlaw housing discrimination.
In 1957, baseball great Willie Mays went searching for a house in San Francisco, where his New York Giants had just decided to relocate.He eventually settled on a boxy, stylish home in the ...
March 1955: Willie Mays of the New York Giants. Credit - Bettmann Archive/Getty Images “Shut up!” insisted Willie Mays, the baseball legend who died last Tuesday at age 93.Just shut up!
San Francisco's housing discrimination against its Black residents received media attention when San Francisco Giants' baseball legend Willie Mays' attempt to buy a home in St. Francis Wood in 1957 was refused because of his race. [39]
Willie Howard Mays Jr. (May 6, 1931 – June 18, 2024), nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 seasons in ...
Francois protested unfair practices against Blacks in housing. [1] He was elected as the San Francisco chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. [2] He also served on the board of the San Francisco Urban League. [3] In private practice, Francois represented Margherite Mays, the wife of Willie Mays. [4] [5]
The San Francisco Giants’ Barry Bonds is given a torch by his godfather Willie Mays after hitting his 660th home run, tying Mays’s record, at SBC Park in San Francisco on April 12, 2004.
The Fair Housing Act was passed at the urging of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Congress passed the federal Fair Housing Act (codified at 42 U.S.C. 3601-3619, penalties for violation at 42 U.S.C. 3631) Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 only one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.